Location Quality Error estimate: horizontal +/- 9.3 km; depth fixed by location
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Location Quality
Parameters Nst=157, Nph=157, Dmin=1709.0 km, Rmss=1.35 sec, Erho=9.3 km, Erzz=0
km, Gp=29.3 degrees
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Remarks At least 3,000 people killed in Sri Lanka, 2,300 in India, 2,000 in
Indonesia, 289 in Thailand, 42 in Malaysia, 8 in Somalia and 2 in Bangladesh
by tsunamis. Tsunamis also occurred on the coasts of Maldives and Cocos Island.
At least 200 people killed, buildings destroyed or damaged in the Banda Aceh
area, Sumatra. Felt widely in Sumatra. Also felt in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia,
Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand. This is now the fourth largest earthquake in
the world since 1900 and is the largest since the 1964 Prince William Sound,
Alaska earthquake.